Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Jagat Prakash Nadda on Sunday inaugurated the Robotic Centre and Image Guided Radiation Therapy Facility here. Nadda, who is the president of the Governing body of institute, also discussed various issues with the PGIMER authorities. Prof A K Mandal, Head, Department of Urology explained the working of the Robotic System installed in the Robotic OT to the Minister.
PGIMER has ‘Robotic Assisted Surgical procedure’ on Delhi pattern for management of various surgical diseases. Robotic Assisted Surgery offers the benefit of meticulousness of tissue dissection and suturing with the help of 3D vision of the operative field with 10 times magnification. Patients face minimum blood loss (eliminating the need for blood transfusion), minimum post operative pain (as surgery is done through key holes), early post operative recovery with minimum hospital stay and early resumption of normal activity.
Prof Rakesh Kapoor of Department of Radiotherapy, PGIMER and his team told Nadda about the advantages of Image Guided Radiation Therapy Facility.The state-of-art image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT) linear Accelerator “TRIlOGY” for the treatment of cancer patients has the facilities of latest advanced onboard CT, Fluoroscopy and Radiography systems for the verification of patient position set up and correction before and during the treatment of these patients.